From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p5IEP0eA214326 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:25:00 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 671EA14F2AC0 for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id skICgMBRpWZpnOQG for ; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 07:24:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:24:56 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: long hangs when deleting large directories (3.0-rc3) Message-ID: <20110618142456.GA26419@infradead.org> References: <20110618141950.GA1685@x4.trippels.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110618141950.GA1685@x4.trippels.de> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Markus Trippelsdorf Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 04:19:50PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > Running the latest git kernel (3.0-rc3) my machine hangs for long > periods (1-2 sec) whenever I delete a large directory recursively on my > xfs partition. During the hang I cannot move the mouse pointer or use > the keyboard (but the music keeps playing without stuttering). A quick > way to reproduce is to "rm -fr" a kernel tree. Does this also happen when using the deadline I/O schedule, that is after a: echo "deadline" > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs